I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible.
I like to keep my girlish figure
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.
When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.
I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?
I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.
I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
I definitely related a lot to Perry [from That's Ordinary World movie]. I liked how he put family first. I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he's just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could've been the path I went on, or not.
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.
Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place
Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn't mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to change in your own life.
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.
Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
